i installed glib from source on debian but atk configure still see old ver of glib
 

Debian Squeeze kernel 3.9
dpkg libglib2.0-0 = 2.4
i installed glib 2.35.3 from source

I've looked around and i guess Debian package is installed /usr/ and installation from source goes to /usr/local/

this forum
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...been-installed
recommends changing...

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

when i'm installing newer programs from source should i just change prefix to /usr/ ?

A little reading would show

./configure --help |less also shows you the options you should be looking at.

should i reinstall glib2 in /usr? or is that sketchy?

what is the proper way to install a newer version of a program (or library or whatever) that is already in stalled by the deb package sys?
you know what i mean?
Debian will give me binary of glib2 2.24.2 but i want to install something that requires 2.35.3

-thx for your help

ok, got it

i added to .bashrc

added to /etc/ld.so.conf
and ran ldconfig

atk complied and installed

but i feel this was a little hacky :/